Friends, Not quite a lost cause afterall. I have found the problem and am marking this thread [SOLVED]. Having been in Set-up dozens of times trying various setting, I had noticed under Memory there was a total of 1.25GB, with 4 modules, 3 of them 256MB and one 512MB. I remembered hearing to always ...

Thank you "brokenman" for those instructions, and yes, as has been claimed here by others, you are a genius, al biet a very humble genius, and that's even better ! Now the results after entering the "3 debug" flag after tabbing the boot screen of Porteus, using version 2 and version 3, both LXDE des...

Back to this old thing. I've been to the facility twice this week and will be going again tomorrow. The box is running Windows XP Professional and I was able to finally login to Windows. Yesterday I took a stack of Linux Live CD's and 2 Porteus flash drives. There is an interrupt exception somewhere...

Hello Porteus friends, Obviously this is not a popular thread, however, I thought I'd include a little more info, sorry for not including the 16.04 LTS Ubuntu stats from April of this year. But here is some current one day info concerning the new 16.04.01 LTS Upgrade for some popular Ubuntu flavors....

I bought my used copy at a Linux Users Group meeting several years ago, forget what I paid. Just now checked Amazon and they have new and used copies for sale, $42 dollars US. Didn't see any mention of .pdf availability.

Friends, If you are new to Linux, as I seem to remain :-), check this out............ Several years ago I discovered "Harley Hahn", his website, and especially his book "Harley Hahn's Guide to Unix and Linux". This is kind of a "fall back to" book for me. He gives an excellent history of Unix and ta...

Fellow Porteui, First I'd like to apologize for not continuing the dialog on the Thread/Topic -General chat/30 miles from home and off the wall. Issues at the mentioned nursing home site are out of my control presently, the computer has been removed. I'm very frustrated, trying to do good, with stop...

Porteus Friends, I'd like to apologize for not continuing the dialog on this topic. Issues at the mentioned nursing home site are out of my control presently, the computer has been removed. I'm very frustrated, trying to do good, with stop signs at every turn. I will continue as soon, and if possibl...

Hi Porteus Friends, Thanks for the replies here. I fell ill with the flu on Sunday and haven't felt like doing much other than sleep. All your replies are appreciated! My stories are never "short" :-) The computer is a Dell GX280 with a 40 Gigabyte HD, I think the thing is over 12 years old. It is l...

Porteus friends, I'm a Porteus user and fan. I ask this here because of the positive attitude, having never experienced otherwise on this, my favorite, preferred Linux and forum. Mom's in a Nursing Home. I visit at least once a week. They have a computer for the residents, but it is Windows, and "no...